scalpod:PallMall: TommyymmoT: Roto-Rot: One of the best scenes in the movie 'Apollo 13' is when the TV channels are being changed and we briefly see a commercial featuring a chimp in a cage attempting to destroy a piece of luggage.

It's a Samsonite luggage commercial, which some people found offensive because it compared the ape to sky caps and bell hops.

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It was especially offensive when you consider that in one ad the "ape" was actually Rick Baker in one of his custom suits.

Forbidden Doughnut:bluenovaman: Black-hearted evil people keeping chimps in a cage like that.

/I will never understand their thinking.

This isn't right by any measure, but I feel less empathy towards a chimp than I do towards a dog or cat. ( despite being close cousins, evolutionarily speaking...)

/ reading about them mauling humans ain't helpin'

They aren't pets either. I do see benefit in interacting with them in a scientific manner to learn from/about them. Well designed enclosures like this are cool in my book even though it changes their natural behaviors and culture.